Flash! Odd Odyssey Categories

I’ve written a couple of times recently about the new Odyssey Edition e-book exclusives in the Amazon store.

I thought I’d take a look at their ranks in the Kindle store…see how well they are selling already.

In doing that, I also looked at their categories. Those categories are normally set by the publisher: they certainly are in the independently-published Digital Text Platform books, but I believe it goes for traditionally-published books as well.

That showed me some odd choices!

Categories are chosen for sales, certainly. I’ve seen the same books in both fiction and non-fiction categories, for example. Is that how Andrew Wylie is making the choices? Maybe…but would you have put Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man under Men’s Adventure in Genre Fiction? I never would have done that in the bookstore I managed!